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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Not completely true.There was no copyright in Greco-Romans times, or before the 1500's, at the earliest. All IP created before then was inherently public domain...
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Yes but if you wanted a copy then you had to either write it by hand yourself or pay someone else to copy it - a self-limiting system. Once printing arrived then any printer could copy anyone's work without recompense to the originator... and apparently did so which brought us eventually to the copyright hole we're now stuck in...